With Chocolate Stout Cupcakes you can have your beer and eat it too! Chocolate and stout are a match made in dessert heaven and they come together in harmony in this decadent cupcake (perfect for St. Paddy’s Day!). Stout enhances the deep, chocolatey flavor without imparting an alcoholic taste. Serve these babies up to your Saint Patty’s Day guests and watch these disappear!

Christina Stanley-Salerno is a recipe developer, food stylist, photographer and blogger at TakeBackYourTable.com. She has an intense passion for the family meal and as a work-at-home mother of two growing boys, knows first-hand the challenges of trying to get a meal on the table. Before going freelance, she was on-staff at Every Day with Rachael Ray where she had the pleasure of working alongside some of the best in the food business. She is now a full-time work at home mom, writing recipes for everyone from Momtastic to Parents.com. Creating simple, quick and healthy meals is her specialty and her trick to keeping the family meal a reality, even on busy weeknights.